Looking for a Fast BuddyBoss Hosting? In this guide we will see how to properly setup LaunchWP to make sure your BuddyBoss Hosting is really optimized, and your community is blazing fast.
BuddyBoss is a premium WordPress plugin that allows users to create online communities on their websites, including engagement features like online forums and private groups. It also has options for private messaging and member connections, much like other social media platforms. It can integrate well with Learndash, TutorLMS or LifterLMS to create online courses. Also, it is really popular with membership plugins like MemberPress, Paid Membership Pro, or Memberium.
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Introduction
BuddyBoss requires some specific setups and configurations to work correctly and to run fast. LaunchWP eases BuddyBoss Hosting like a breeze by providing Enterprise Grade NGINX Stack, and also Super-Performant Object Caching – Two Vitals for running your BuddyBoss powered community. Also, LaunchWP’s Server Level Page Caching makes Static BuddyBoss pages blazing-fast. But BuddyBoss heavily relies on dynamic pages, as it’s a community plugin after-all, and is highly dynamic for each user. We will go through each step to make sure your community runs blazingly-fast on LaunchWP BuddyBoss Hosting.
Enable NGINX Proxy Cache
Aside from the auto-configured Object Caching, LaunchWP offers something called Proxy cache. LaunchWP’s NGINX proxy cache is a front-layer cache mechanism which aims to reduce load on your origin server. For example, when your Redis cache is flushed, NGINX proxy cache will handle some requests without bothering your origin server, significantly saving your CPU while your Redis cache is re-created. Many BuddyBoss operations flush the object cache multiple times, so when your community is growing fast, your server might be overwhelmed with the CPU usage. So to counter that, navigate to the LaunchWP Server Dashboard, go under your Site > Settings > Enable NGINX proxy cache. Save the Settings afterwards.
Protect and Fix Media
BuddyBoss has something called Media Permissions. This feature from BuddyBoss helps you to restrict media (e.g. photos, videos, and documents) access to protect your privacy and maintain the security of your private files. BuddyBoss does this using NGINX config rules. After you have installed BuddyBoss, navigate under BuddyBoss > Settings > Media > Media Security & Performance.
To enable this protection, BuddyBoss asks to add some NGINX config rules to your webserver, so that BuddyBoss can protect your medias. LaunchWP makes it extremely easy to add custom NGINX config rules, without the need of even opening your Code Editor or SSH to the sever. Simply navigate to the LaunchWP Server Dashboard, go under your Site > Settings > Custom Nginx Configuration, and paste the below Config rules to enable media protection by BuddyBoss.
Save the Settings afterward. Do not worry about restarting your webserver or anything, LaunchWP will handle all those for you. Comeback to your BuddyBoss Settings page, and you should see your media is now protected.
Using Server-Level Cron
BuddyBoss greatly relies on WordPress Cron jobs for functionalities like scheduled posts, checking for updates, Log Cleanup and many more. By default WordPress comes with WordPress Cron, meaning Cron Jobs only run when someone visits your website or if there is some activity on your website. (WP Cronjobs are not real cronjobs).
To mitigate this LaunchWP runs your cron-jobs from the Server, meaning no matter your website has any activity or not, your Cron-Jobs are ensured to run as long as your Server is online. To further boost your BuddyBoss Hosting performance, and reduce server load, you can disable the WordPress Cron (The Cron that WordPress runs by default), and let LaunchWP’s Server-Level Cron run your BuddyBoss Cron jobs. To do that, navigate to the LaunchWP Server Dashboard, go under your Site > WP CONFIG > DISABLE_WP_CRON. Save the settings afterwards.
LaunchWP’s Server-Level cron jobs are run once per hour to ensure that help you save your server’s CPU.
Cache Exclusions for BuddyBoss Hosting
BuddyBoss is a dynamic community plugin, meaning there are pages that doesn’t simply work with LaunchWP’s Page caching. Because Page caching works great for STATIC content and pages, but for showing dynamic content, Page caching is not the way to go. So now we need to add the BuddyBoss Pages in the Page caching exclusions list of LaunchWP. (Excluding an URL from Page caching doesn’t mean it will be excluded from the Object Caching. Object Caching will be still active, and is always recommended for BuddyBoss dynamic pages)
Navigate to the LaunchWP Server Dashboard, go under your Site > Settings > Custom Cache Ignore URLs, and paste the below list in the field. Besure to include the trailing slash to enable wildcard exclusion for that URL.
NOTE: The URL paths starting from “/members/” can vary per user. The URL paths used above are the default provided by BuddyBoss. So if your pages have a different link or different URL path, please replace it accordingly. For example, if your Groups Page is at “https://your-site.com/families” instead of “https://your-site.com/groups“, replace the “/groups/” from above with “/families/“. (Don’t forget the trailing slash to enable wildcard exclusion)
Auto Scheduled Site Backups
Backups are your friend in case of any issues or Disaster. LaunchWP provides Auto-Scheduled Full Site Backups to S3 Storage providers, which you can restore from anytime. As of now, LaunchWP supports Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Vultr, Linode, Google Cloud Platform, Wasabi, Backblaze, Cloudflare R2. Simply navigate to the Backups tab under a site, and configure auto-backups of your website.
And there you have it! Your BuddyBoss Hosting now runs on your own server, powered by LaunchWP. We have covered multiple techniques to make sure your BuddyBoss-powered community runs blazing-fast, is efficient, and resource optimized. This is a Human 👨 written article, and to err is Human, so feel free to let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions. We would be more than happy to assist further. Checkout our super-low pricing, and Get Started Today with LaunchWP.
